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Citizen Journalism Goes Mainstream

Leslie Poston

Citizen journalism has been a hot topic across the blogosphere since 9/11, only growing more apparently useful during the resulting Iraq war and the current election. Citizen journalists are the reason imprisoned bloggers have been freed, and through social media like Twitter the citizen journalist has helped stop everything from voter fraud to African poachers.
YouTube recently introduced an entire channel for citizen journalism and reporters, causing many to applaud it for its foresight. While I agree that a channel devoted [...]